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by cybersecurity firm Mandiant last week claimed that a gang of hackers linked to the Russian government has attacked water utility companies around the world, including a treatment plant in the northern Texas town of Muleshoe.
Mandiant said APT44 is, in reality, “sponsored by Russian military intelligence” and has been active far beyond the Ukraine theater. The group is not a loose collection of political activists, it claimed, but rather a “dynamic and operationally mature threat actor that is actively engaged in the full spectrum of espionage, attack, and influence operations,” including efforts to meddle in foreign elections.
“Sandworm” does far more than directly assist the Russian military, however. Among other malign activities, it appears to be using skills developed in attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure to conduct probing attacks of vital public utilities in countries the Kremlin views as threats or rivals. At the same time, the Russian military is developing defenses against precisely the kind of sabotage that APT44 pioneered.
The hack was not exactly subtle. Three other small towns in Texas reported intrusion attempts on the same night. One of them, Hale Center,to his office and literally unplugging the city’s water management computer from the Internet, running everything manually for a few days, and handing their security logs over to the FBI and Department of Homeland Security for investigation. Investigators traced many of the 37,000 hits on the Hale Center firewall back to a location in St. Petersburg, Russia.
“OT” stands for Operational Technology, the computer systems that control industrial and public works devices.to state governors in March that foreign hackers were attempting to sabotage water and sewage plants across the United States.
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